I'm looking at a core2 duo E8600, would a quad core be better?




If you stick with XP32bit/ Vista 32bit, quadcores are overkill. you simply will never have enough RAM to use them fully with AE. Therefore a dualcore is more than enough. I'd only buy a quad, if you plan on getting Vista 64. Likewise, the added speed of DDR3 RAM would only pay off on such a monstrous system, so you can most likely go without it.

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